Folk tales - Mother Tongue

Caucasus

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Daday Ul: story of a witch

Tree fairy tale

Iran

Sanandaj

Shiraz

Story about a non-Jew

Story about the non-Jew at the grocery store

Iraq

Baghdad

The Jew and the Jugs

The value of salt

Israel

Peqi'in

Tale of Rabbi Yossi the righteous

Kurdistan

Barzan

Story about a donkey (Barzan dialect)

Visit at the Ḥacham (sage of Talmud)

Betanure

The Loss of the Mule

The Beggar

The Donkey

The Fool and the Fleas

The Fool Who Thought He was Dead

The Lashes

The Marriage of the Patriarch

The Servant, the Duck and the King

The Shepherd Who Thought He was Dead

The Stolen Donkey

Who Lends a Donkey?

Qapʾachʾan

Children's tales and songs

Sulaymaniya

Fable

Fable about the Indian Jewry and an incorrect reading of the Bible

Fables

Harun al-Rashid stories

Jew builds a mosque

Passover fables

Zakho

Folk tales and women's lamentations

Folk tales, lamentations and family stories

Harun al-Rashid asks a riddle

Story about a donkey (Barzan dialect)

Story of a wise king

The Jew and the Priest

Visit at the Ḥacham (sage of Talmud)

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Story about a woman and her husband

Libya

Tripoli

Tale of the Sultan and the loaf of bread

Morocco

Casablanca

Holidays and folk tale

Mogador (Essaouira)

Folk tale

Tunisia

Tunis

Turkey

Buenos Aires

The veal that turned into fish

Challa

Sufi Ibrahim, the prayer rug and the Hajj

The Aga takes what he wants

Istanbul

The veal that turned into fish

Izmir

The veal that turned into fish

Yemen

Ḥaima

The non-Jew and the orchard

Ḥawlan

Tales and proverbs

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